Can I transfer my licensed DVD's to the icloud ?

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Can I transfer my licensed DVD's to the icloud ?

Hello , I am new to this forum -

My question is -

Can i transfer my used DVD collection i own to the icloud or Apple or any other storage company ?

I want to watch them when i want without having to insert a DVD into a DVD player.

We have a Walmart VuDu / Ultraviolet account that we have approximately 165 movies we have transferred some titles into.

We can watch them whenever we want on most any device - i really like it a lot.

Problem is - Walmart mostly only allows CERTAIN TITLES - to be transferred - in their cloud service -

Not any title that you want. So , I am stuck with titles that they will not allow. Even though I own a licensed copy.

I am not interested in bootlegging anything - just want to transfer these LICENSED MOVIES to watch later.

I own these licensed DVD's that are stacked up in our house - I want to transfer them to a cloud service.

Then I will sell the used DVD's after I transfer them - and get this clutter out of our house.

I transferred a few Elvis movie titles into the VuDu account - and Vudu would except some titles not all.

All titles were from the same company - go figure ?

Anyway , can anyone give me the real cost effective solution to transferring any movie i want to the cloud to watch later ?

Posted on Sep 20, 2014 9:26 AM

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Answer 1

Sep 20, 2014 9:45 AM in response to boscowbell

You cannot transfer DVDs to any other medium: most of them are copy protected to prevent you doing this, which is also illegal (particularly if you sell off the physical disk but want to retain a copy).

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Sep 20, 2014 10:20 AM in response to Roger Wilmut1

Thanks Roger for the fast reply -

I am still a little confused -

If Walmart has a VuDu / Ultraviolet service that allows me to transfer MY DVD's to their service -

Remember some titles they allow - some titles are not allowed - then how can your response be 100% correct ?

This is not a abusive reply by any means - I really want the full truth on this matter - I believe others are doing this ?

Walmart has surely allowed me to buy a used DVD from anywhere - as long as it is a Licensed Product -

and every week I just put the used DVD into my laptop and it reads the title and says congratulations you have added this movie to your account.

So , I have 165 titles in the Vudu /ultraviolet Walmart Cloud account. They charge $2 for each DVD added to my account.

If I load 10 movies or more - they cut the price to only $1 per DVD movie title added to our account.

I do not have to buy the movie from them.

My real concern is - somewhere - some company must have storage for us to load and unload to watch anytime - our movies.

Since this is a new medium only a couple years old - the cloud - are we both (respectfully) just a little behind the times ? You and Me ?

Or was the reply a generic response - because you assumed that it was for illegal purposes ? I can understand that.

I just think that this service is somewhere out there - without doing anything illegal - to upload anything - to see later.

Are folks just downloading the movies on their hard drive then watching later ?

This means that your hard drive will not be big enough to handle all of a large DVD collection - correct ?

It would have to be a massive hard drive ! I do not want to do it that way - I like the cloud idea !

What do you think ?

Thanks again Roger !

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Answer 3

Sep 20, 2014 10:44 AM in response to boscowbell

I'm not familiar with the Walmart service; you would have to make use of it within whatever its terms of service.

If you have a DVD you have purchased then you cannot technically or legally make a copy of it to keep on your laptop or upload to your cloud storage. This restriction is placed by the people who make the DVDs to prevent piracy - such as making copies to sell, or indeed making a copy to keep and selling the original; both activities constitute copyright theft.

Online services such as iTunes have a licenced arrangement with the copyright owners to provide copies under the specified terms of service that you can download. You cannot copy these to another DVD or other online storage.

I assume the Walmart service is licenced for specified films in a similar way and is giving you a discount for having purchased a physical copy.

So the answer to the specific question you originally asked is, you can't do this.

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